Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush

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dc.contributor.authorScoones, Ian
dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorBorras Jr., Saturnino M.
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Ben
dc.contributor.authorWolford, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-08T10:02:05Z
dc.date.available2017-06-08T10:02:05Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with widespread media coverage, policy commentary and civil society engagement. This ‘land rush’ has been accompanied by a ‘literature rush’, with a fast-growing body of reports, articles, tables and books with varied purposes, metrics and methods. Land grabbing, as it is popularly called, is now a hot political topic around the world, discussed amongst the highest circles. This is why getting the facts right is very important and having effective methodologies for doing so is crucial. Several global initiatives have been created to aggregate information on land deals, and to describe their scale, character and distribution. All have contributed to building a bigger (if not always better) picture of the phenomenon, but all have struggled with methodology. This JPS Forum identifies a profound uncertainty about what it is that is being counted, questions the methods used to collate and aggregate ‘land grabs’, and calls for a second phase of land grab research which abandons the aim of deriving total numbers of hectares in favour of more specific, grounded and transparent methods.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationScoones, I. et al. (2013). Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 40 (3): 469–483en_US
dc.identifier.issn0306-6150
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2938
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.801341
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Taylor Francis Groupen_US
dc.rightsPublisher retains copyright. Authors may archive the published version in their Institutional Repository.
dc.subjectLand grabsen_US
dc.subjectThe politics of evidenceen_US
dc.subjectDataen_US
dc.subjectMethodsen_US
dc.titleForum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rushen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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